Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/23

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: The "R3" (was 90 mm., 2 and 3 lug)
From: captyng@vtx.ch (Gerard Captijn)
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 21:42:01 +0200

>At 11:51 PM 7/22/96 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>Yes I agree, the interchangeasble back is a nice feathure of the 
>>Rollei 3003.
>>
>>Regretfully no other 35 mm Camera - Producer came on the idea to 
>>create models with film-back interchangeability.
>
>There was another 35mm camera that had interchangeable backs. Can't remember
>what it was called, but I've seen pictures of it. I believe they were
>selling them in the 60s. It had dark slides and it looked like a standard
>35mm camera.
>
>===================
>Eric Welch
>Grants Pass (OR) Daily Courier
>NPPA Region 11 JIB chair
>
>You're only young once; you can be immature forever.
>

>Adox, a german filmmaker, deceased a long time ago, marketed such a camera.
The problem with the thing was that the tolerances between camera and back
made sharp pictures almost impossible. You might have referred to the Adox
interchangeable back camera.

Gerard Captijn,
Geneva, Switzerland. 
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